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Microsoft: Overheating caused Outlook and Hotmail shutdown
Microsoft has blamed an overheating data centre for a 16-hour shutdown of its Outlook and Hotmail systems. In a blog post, it said a “rapid and substantial temperature spike” had caused a large number...
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Google launches £2million Global Impact Challenge
Search giant Google today launches the Global Impact Challenge, its first competition to find British organisations that will use technology ‘to transform lives’. Aimed at non-profits, the Global...
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Yahoo buys Summly news app from teenager for £18m
A 17-year-old London schoolboy has sold his app company to the internet giant Yahoo for an estimated £18m. But he won’t be moving to the company’s California headquarters just yet … because he wants to...
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Online anonymity: impossible after four phone calls
Writing in Nature, an international team led by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that data derived from mobile phone networks, using just the location of radio masts,...
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Privacy ‘impossible’ with Google Glass warn campaigners
Google Glass and other augmented reality gadgets risk creating a world in which privacy is impossible, warn campaigners. The warning comes from a group called “Stop the Cyborgs” that wants limits put...
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HTC ‘Facebook phone’ picture appears ahead of launch
A picture supposedly showing the “Facebook phone” by HTC has emerged on Twitter ahead of its expected launch tomorrow. “HTC First” is the name of the device according to the photo, posted by @evleaks...
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Google ‘to buy WhatsApp for $1bn’
Search giant Google is reportedly in negotations to buy popular messaging service WhatsApp for $1bn. Previous rumours claimed that Facebook was also negotiating to buy the popular cross-platform mobile...
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Microsoft Outlook available for Surface ‘later this year’
Technology giant Microsoft will make its popular Outlook email and calendar software available on the Surface tablet later this year, according to a tech blogger with sources inside the company. Paul...
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LinkMe Displays Texts, Social-Media Alerts on Your Wrist
Move over, Apple and Samsung. While two of tech’s biggest companies are reportedly developing smart watches, startup LinkMe has already gotten a head start. LinkMe is a Bluetooth-enabled device that...
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WhatsApp said to have rebuffed $1bn bid from Google for messaging app
Google has reportedly had a $1bn bid to buy the smartphone messaging system WhatsApp rebuffed as it tries to expand its grasp of the chat market. The search giant said it would not comment on...
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Google accused of anti-competitive Android rules
Google’s Android smartphone and tablet software is a “Trojan horse” designed to seize control of the mobile internet market, an international coalition of technology firms has claimed to EU competition...
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Google Map Maker edit tools extended to cover the UK
Google is expanding its Map Maker edit tools to the UK. The browser-based software allows users to add details about buildings, hiking trails, vegetation and other features to its maps of the country....
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Google Glass: No advertising allowed, developers told
Developers working on apps for Google’s smart glasses have been told they will not be allowed to place advertising within the device’s display. The newly-published terms and conditions for developers...
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Apple ‘in talks’ over Facebook Home for iPhone
Facebook is in talks with Apple to create a version of its Facebook Home Android software for the iPhone, an executive of the social network has claimed. Facebook Home was introduced to the British...
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Google Glass eBay Auction Hits $90,000 Before Being Removed
Google Glass turned up on auction site eBay yesterday. The augmented reality eyewear apparently fetched bids of more than $95,000, according to Forbes, showing that the product is in high demand. The...
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Google and Microsoft see a jump in profits
Technology giants Google and Microsoft have both reported rising profits. Google’s net profit climbed to $3.35bn (£2.19bn) in the first three months of the year, up 16% from a year earlier, boosted by...
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Tablets overtake smartphones on BBC iPlayer
The BBC iPlayer was accessed more from tablets than from smartphones for the first time last month. A boom in tablet-based viewing in the wake of strong Christmas sales of devices such as the iPad and...
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Eric Schmidt defends Google tax affairs, saying firm was key to UK growth
Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt has defended the internet giant’s tax affairs, saying the firm was playing a key role in the UK’s high-tech growth. The firm paid just £6m in corporation tax in...
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Google Places For Business Gets Its Own iPhone App For Managing Listings
Local business owners have a new tool for managing their Google Places For Business listing: a dedicated app that works on the iPhone and iPod Touch. There’s no official announcement that I can find...
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Apple’s iPhone 5S launch ‘delayed by fingerprint scanner’
The iPhone 5S could be delayed until after June because of problems with a new fingerprint-scanning feature designed by Apple to replace the passcode-based unlocking system on previous models. A supply...
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